Pennsylvania does not have an official language, and it does not allow referenda or voter initiatives.

8.4 percent of this state’s residents speak a language other than English. This state has the nation’s highest proportion of speakers of Pennsylvania Dutch, and Slovak.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN PENNSYLVANIA

10,583,054	English
972,484	All languages other than English combined
356,754	Spanish or Spanish Creole
70,434	Italian
68,672	German
47,735	French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
42,790	Chinese
32,189	Russian
31,717	Polish
25,978	Korean
25,880	Vietnamese
19,557	Arabic
17,348	Greek
10,045	Hindi
9,673	African languages
9,604	Tagalog
8,957	Gujarathi
8,710	Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
8,648	Serbo-Croatian
8,346	Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
7,202	Japanese
6,166	Hungarian
5,918	Hebrew
5,444	Yiddish
5,064	Urdu
4,782	French Creole
3,703	Persian
3,318	Scandinavian languages
2,271	Armenian
2,249	Laotian
2,067	Thai
1,190	Other Native North American languages
880	Miao, Hmong
41	Navajo